 /*
  * Copyright (C) 2005 db4objects Inc. http://www.db4o.com
  *
  * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
  * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
  * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
  * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
  *
  * Contributors:
  * db4objects - Initial API and implementation
  */
 package org.eclipse.core.internal.databinding.conversion;

 import org.eclipse.core.databinding.conversion.IConverter;

 /**
  * StringToCharacterConverter.
  */
 public class StringToCharacterConverter implements IConverter {

     /*
      * (non-Javadoc)
      *
      * @see org.eclipse.jface.binding.converter.IConverter#convert(java.lang.Object)
      */
     public Object convert(Object source) {
         String s = (String ) source;
         Character result;

         if (s.length() > 1)
             throw new IllegalArgumentException (
                     "String2Character: string too long: " + s); //$NON-NLS-1$

         try {
             result = new Character (s.charAt(0));
         } catch (Exception e) {
             throw new IllegalArgumentException (
                     "String2Character: " + e.getMessage() + ": " + s); //$NON-NLS-1$ //$NON-NLS-2$
 }

         return result;
     }

     public Object getFromType() {
         return String .class;
     }

     public Object getToType() {
         return Character .class;
     }

 }

